Black cosmopolitans : race, religion, and republicanism in an age of revolution /
Race, religion, and republicanism in an age of revolution
Christine Levecq.
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (x, 289 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Jacobus Capitein and the Radical Possibilities of Calvinism -- Jean-Baptiste Belley and French Republicanism -- John Marrant: From Methodism to Freemasonry.
"This book examines the life and intellectual contributions of three extraordinary black men--Jacobus Capitein, Jean-Baptiste Belley, and John Marrant--whose experiences and writing helped shape racial, social, and political thought throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world."
9780813942193
Black people--Intellectual life--18th century. Black people--Atlantic Ocean Region--Biography. Freed persons--Biography. African Americans--Intellectual life--18th century. Cosmopolitanism--History--18th century.